Location

Cost and Registration

Cost: $375.00 per person or $350.00 per person for teams of 15 or more

Includes:

Lunch from Panera Bread on June 6, 2018 and June 7, 2018

Access to attend all sessions

Refreshments (coffee, water and soda) on both days of the institute

Access to all presenter materials online

Registration Coming Soon!

Team Registration of 15 or More: Please email us at info@firsteducation-us.com with team member names, titles/positions, and email addresses and we will send confirmation emails.

*Please note that May 1st is our cancellation deadline for this event.

Institute Description

If you are looking for ways to focus on learning and how to create better learning experiences for students, this institute is perfect for you and your team. Come spend two days with our team of experts to help your school/district move forward with how to best ensure high levels of learning for ALL students in ALL schools. This will allow you to strengthen your understanding and approach to creating a highly effective professional learning environment in our schools. Our presenters have extensive knowledge in all of these critical areas and this institute will allow you to better understand how all elements systematically flow together to create better learning structures for today's students. Our team of presenters will customize your learning experience at this institute by sharing their research, knowledge and implementation strategies on best practices in all of these crucial areas. Engage in this process with colleagues on critical questions that must be asked to ensure high levels of learning for all students and we have created a Learning FIRST culture within our schools.

What type of learning environment do we strive to create in becoming a Learning FIRST school?

What are the most important and critical standards and targets our students must learn?

What types of assessments (both formative and summative) will we use to have our students demonstrate how they have mastered what they need to know?

What approaches to learning will help our students experience success?

What is our collective response to our students when they are not learning what is essential?

What do we collectively do for students that come to us with pre-existing knowledge and already know what we will be teaching?

How we best utilize our existing resources to support professional learning for our staff?

Through these guiding questions and discussion, you will be afforded the opportunity to learn how to best take these practices and create sustainable high impact learning structures and you will begin to make meaningful change in the best interest of students. This institute will be loaded with great keynotes packed with ideas that support student learning in all situations. You also have the ability to personalize your own learning experience by picking the breakout sessions that best meet your learning needs.

Participants who attend this institute, will be able to: (not limited)

understand how standards align to assessments in all grades and content areas.

learn how to create strong formative assessments to help guide our instructional practices.

understand the importance of collaboration in both the design of common formative assessment and the analysis of the data.

gain the skills to turn traditional lessons/plans into standards-based lessons that focus on what is most critically important.

understand the role of feedback in the classroom and how to engage in consistent feedback practices.

understand how to effectively turn data into action.

understand the role that creating a culture of learning has on making significant school improvement.

develop an understanding of effective approaches to homework, late work, re-dos and re-takes.

gain the necessary knowledge and skills to accurately grade against content standards.

gain strategies to ensure students own their learning.

increase student motivation through effective use of data, goal setting, and feedback.

understand some of the misconceptions about grading practices, and identify how to make grades meaningful and motivating.

understand how to provide extensions tied to the standards and assessment for some of our most gifted learners.

understand the role in relationships within the educational process and how it leads to higher levels of learning.

If you have questions about this institute, please do not hesitate to contact us at (920) 479-6504 or email us at info@firsteducation-us.com. ​​​

Graduate Credits Available

Midwest Teachers Institute (MTI) — 3 credits/$300Attendance at the Institutes, plus additional coursework related to the Institute, is required for credit.MTI has an exclusive agreement with Calumet College of St. Joseph (Whiting, IN) to provide teachers with an official transcript for completing course MTI 531.